Brooke Burns

Former model Brooke Burns, perhaps best known for her stint on "Baywatch" (1998-2001), enjoyed an active performing career on television after leaving the campy series in 2000. Since that time, Burns...
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Former Nip/Tuck star Julian Mcmahon has wed again. The actor exchanged vows with his long-term girlfriend, actress and model Kelly Paniagua, in Lake Tahoe, California over the weekend (28Jun14).
The couple has been together for 11 years.
McMahon has been married twice before - his ex-wives are fellow Australian Dannii Minogue and actress Brooke Burns.
The actor has a 13-year-old daughter, called Madison, from his marriage to Burns.

Actress Brooke Burns was involved in a nasty car accident in Los Angeles on Thursday (08May14). The former Melrose Place star was driving her BMW near Universal Studios when the vehicle collided with a Toyota Matrix.
Police and fire units arrived at the scene, but no one was taken to hospital.
Photos show a shocked Burns being consoled by a passer-by while sitting on the kerb.
The hood of the Burns' car was badly mangled, and the vehicle had to be towed away from the scene, according to TMZ.com.

Christmas may still be a month off, but when has that ever stopped the Hallmark Channel from rolling out its holiday themed movies a tad bit early? Quick answer: never! Which is why a snowy-white TV-flick starring none-other than Henry Winkler is just one of the great programs on our list this week. Here's what else you need to be watching.
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Modern FamilyWhy Modern Family? Because it's still the most consistently funnyshow on network TV. And we all know how the Big Four's crop of brand spankin' new sitcoms have been faring lately. Just turns on The Crazy Ones for five minutes. A vomit bag may be required. A new episode of Modern Family airs Wednesday at 9PM ET on ABC.
JFK: Three Shots That Changed AmericaWant more JFK anniversary coverage? How could you not? Then you'll want to check out the History Channel's engrossing two-part documentary airing this Friday. Not only does it include rare and unseen footage of the Kennedy assassination, but it also repudiates claims that there was a conspiracy or government cover-up. Hope you're listening, Oliver Stone! JFK: Three Shots That Changed America will air this Friday on the History Channel. Check your local listings for times.
The Most Wonderful Time of the YearThanksgiving hasn't even arrived yet, but Christmas season is already in full swing on the Hallmark Channel. In this heartwarming gem from 2008, Henry Winkler goes to great lengths to teach his curmudgeonly sister (Brooke Burns) about the true meaning of the holiday. That's right, folks, he's leaving the Fonz jacket at home! The Most Wonderful Time of the Year airs this Wednesday at 8PM ET on the Hallmark Channel.
The SimpsonsYep, America's favorite animated family (sorry Griffins) are back at it for a record-braking 25th season. Who's still watching, you ask? Well, enough people for Matt Groening and company to score a cool $750 million after signing an immensely lucrative syndication deal with FXX last week. And with over episodes and counting, those chinless Springfieldians show no signs of slowing down. Another new episode of The Simpsons airs this Sunday at 8PM ET on Fox.
ChoppedFor 17 seasons and counting, Chopped has been pitting chefs against one another and seeing what they come up with. This week the cooks are asked to combine exotic dishes like kimchi and gefilte fish, as well as a dessert round featuring marshmallow cake and citrus water. Mmm...anyone else feeling hungry right about now? A new episode of Chopped airs this Tuesday at 7 PM ET on the Food Network.
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Now that we've finally all stopped talking about Lance Armstrong, people are beginning to think that we're not talking about Lance Armstrong enough. Sure, there's a movie about the disgraced cyclist in the works — a Paramount feature being produced by J.J. Abrams and totally not starring Bradley Cooper. But that's hardly enough. We need another movie. And another "J" to direct it. That's what Warner Bros. thought, anyway, as it has enlisted Jay Roach to helm a second biopic about the biker.
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Deadline reports that Roach — director of the Austin Powers series, Game Change, and The Campaign — is signing on to helm the tale of Armstrong's fall from glory in the face of a doping scandal. Along with Roach comes screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, a Steven Soderbergh frequent collaborator who must be looking for a new pal since his The Informant!, Contagion, and Side Effects director is hanging up the corduroys after the HBO film Behind the Candelabra.
With Roach in tow, we might be inclined to expect an Armstrong story that is a bit funnier than the alternative. Sight gags, witty repartee, bicyclists slipping on banana peels... but then we have Burns, a thriller machine also responsible for The Bourne Ultimatum and slated with writing the forthcoming Dawn of the Planet of the apes. So a whole mess of tension and a few jokes to break up the anxiety? That sounds like a functional formula.
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At this point, there are too few details surrounding either this picture or Abrams' Armstrong film to tell how they'll be different. Will Roach's be more intimate and personal, while Abrams' more vast and far reaching? Will one tell a softer, simpler story of a man taken down by his own pride, while the other indulges in the dramatic examination of the very idea of drug abuse? Will one have Mini-Mes and the other displaced polar bears? If so, which will have which?
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In a post-Harry Potter Avatar and Lord of the Rings world the descriptors "sci-fi" and "fantasy" conjure up particular imagery and ideas. The Hunger Games abolishes those expectations rooting its alternate universe in a familiar reality filled with human characters tangible environments and terrifying consequences. Computer graphics are a rarity in writer/director Gary Ross' slow-burn thriller wisely setting aside effects and big action to focus on star Jennifer Lawrence's character's emotional struggle as she embarks on the unthinkable: a 24-person death match on display for the entire nation's viewing pleasure. The final product is a gut-wrenching mature young adult fiction adaptation diffused by occasional meandering but with enough unexpected choices to keep audiences on their toes.
Panem a reconfigured post-apocalyptic America is sectioned off into 12 unique districts and ruled under an iron thumb by the oppressive leaders of The Capitol. To keep the districts producing their specific resources and prevent them from rebelling The Capitol created The Hunger Games an annual competition pitting two 18-or-under "tributes" from each district in a battle to the death. During the ritual tribute "Reaping " teenage Katniss (Lawrence) watches as her 12-year-old sister Primrose is chosen for battle—and quickly jumps to her aid becoming the first District 12 citizen to volunteer for the games. Joined by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) a meek baker's son and the second tribute Effie the resident designer and Haymitch a former Hunger Games winner-turned-alcoholic-turned-mentor Katniss rides off to The Capitol to train and compete in the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
The greatest triumph of The Hunger Games is Ross' rich realization of the book's many worlds: District 12 is painted as a reminiscent Southern mining town haunting and vibrant; The Capitol is a utopian metropolis obsessed with design and flair; and The Hunger Games battleground is a sprawling forest peppered with Truman Show-esque additions that remind you it's all being controlled by overseers. The small-scale production value adds to the character-first approach and even when the story segues to larger arenas like a tickertape parade in The Capitol's grand Avenue of Tributes hall it's all about Katniss.
For fans the script hits every beat a nearly note-for-note interpretation of author Suzanne Collins' original novel—but those unfamiliar shouldn't worry about missing anything. Ross knows his way around a sharp screenplay (he's the writer of Big Pleasantville and Seabiscuit) and he's comfortable dropping us right into the action. His characters are equally as colorful as Panem Harrelson sticking out as the former tribute enlivened by the chance to coach winners. He's funny he's discreet he's shaded—a quality all the cast members share. As a director Ross employs a distinct often-grating perspective. His shaky cam style emphasizes the reality of the story but in fight scenarios—and even simple establishing shots of District 12's goings-on—the details are lost in motion blur.
But the dread of the scenario is enough to make Hunger Games an engrossing blockbuster. The lead-up to the actual competition is an uncomfortable and biting satire of reality television sports and everything that commands an audience in modern society. Katniss' brooding friend Gale tells her before she departs "What if nobody watched?" speculating that carnage might end if people could turn away. Unfortunately they can't—forcing Katniss and Peeta to become "stars" of the Hunger Games. The duo are pushed to gussy themselves up put on a show and play up their romance for better ratings. Lawrence channels her reserved Academy Award-nominated Winter's Bone character to inhabit Katniss' frustration with the system. She's great at hunting but she doesn't want to kill. She's compassionate and considerate but has no interest in bowing down to the system. She's a leader but she knows full well she's playing The Capitol's game. Even with 23 other contestants vying for the top spot—like American Idol with machetes complete with Ryan Seacrest stand-in Caesar Flickerman (the dazzling Stanley Tucci)—Katniss' greatest hurdle is internal. A brave move for a movie aimed at a young audience.
By the time the actual Games roll around (the movie clocks in at two and a half hours) there's a need to amp up the pace that never comes and The Hunger Games loses footing. Katniss' goal is to avoid the action hiding in trees and caves waiting patiently for the other tributes to off themselves—but the tactic isn't all that thrilling for those watching. Luckily Lawrence Hutcherson and the ensemble of young actors still deliver when they cross paths and particular beats pack all the punch an all-out deathwatch should. PG-13 be damned the film doesn't skimp on the bloodshed even when it comes to killing off children. The Hunger Games bites off a lot for the first film of a franchise and does so bravely and boldly. It may not make it to the end alive but it doesn't go down without a fight.
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The Warrior director proposed to the actress earlier this month (Dec11) after dating her for less than a year, according to Life &amp; Style magazine.
The couple made its first public appearance together in August (11).
Burns has an 11-year-old daughter from her marriage to actor Julian McMahon. She was also previously engaged to Bruce Willis.

At some point in the early years of the 21st century a bunch of Hollywood executives must have gotten together and decided that animated films should be made for all audiences. The goal was perhaps to make movies that are simultaneously accessible to the older and younger sets with colorful imagery that one expects from children’s films and two levels of humor: one that’s quite literal and harmless and another that’s somewhat subversive. The criteria has resulted in cross-generational hits like Wall-E and Madagascar and though it’s nice to be able to take my nephew to the movies and be as entertained by cartoon characters as he is I can’t help but wonder what happened to unabashedly innocent animated classics like A Goofy Movie and The Land Before Time?
Disney’s Winnie The Pooh is the answer to the Shrek’s and Hoodwinked!’s of the world: a short sweet simple and lighthearted tale of friendship that doesn’t need pop-culture references or snarky dialogue to put a smile on your face. Directors Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall found some fresh ways to deliver adorable animation while keeping the carefree spirit of A.A. Milne’s source material in tact. Their story isn’t the most original; the first part of the film finds Pooh Piglet Tigger and Owl searching for Eeyore’s tail (a common plot point in the books and past Pooh films) and hits all the predictable notes but the second half mixes things up a bit as the crew searches for a missing Christopher Robin whom they believe has been kidnapped by a forest creature known as the “Backson” (it’s really just the result of the illiterate Owl or is it?).
The beauty of hand-drawn animation all but forgotten until recently is what makes Winnie the Pooh so incredibly magnetic. There’s an inexplicable crispness to the colors and characters that CG just can’t duplicate. It’s a more personal practice for the filmmakers and should provide a refreshing experience for audiences who have become jaded with the pristine presentation of computerized imagery. The film is bookended by brief live-action shots from inside Robin’s room an interesting dynamic that plays up the simplicity of youth ties it to these beloved characters and brings you right back to memories of your own childhood.
With a just-over-an-hour run time Winnie the Pooh is short enough to hold the attention of children but won’t bore the parents who will love the film mainly for nostalgic musings. Still it’s the young’uns who will most enjoy this breezy bright and enchanting film that proves old-school characters can appeal to new moviegoers.

The High Fidelity actor has been romancing the 31-year-old beauty, who split from Willis in 2004, since the beginning of the year (10), reports Life &amp; Style magazine.
A source tells the publication, “They’ve been going out seriously for more than a month. She’s super sweet and definitely has a type - she dates older men.”
The 43-year-old actor has never wed, while Burns was previously married to NIP/Tuck star Julian McMahon, the father of her nine-year-old daughter. After their 2001 divorce, she was later engaged to Willis, but the pair called off the engagement in 2004.

The Melrose Place star and her daughter Madison, nine, were left devastated this week (begs05Oct09) after three-year-old black Maltipoo Max escaped from their Toluca Lake, California home when painters left a door open.
Burns offered a $250 (£170) reward for Max's safe return - and she was delighted when a pooch matching the description of her Maltipoo was discovered by a neighbour of her dog groomer, reports TMZ.com.
The pet has now been reunited with Burns.

The star and her daughter Madison, nine, have been left "devastated" after three-year-old black Maltipoo Max escaped from the house when painters left a door in their Toluca Lake, California home open.
The Burns are now asking for locals to help keep a look out for the dog and are offering a reward of $250 (£170) for its safe return, reports PeoplePets.com.
The actress is not alone in mourning the loss of her pup - Jessica Simpson's beloved Maltipoo Daisy was snatched by a coyote last month (Sep09).

Starred in FOX's summer drama "North Shore," based around the staff of a Hawaiian resort

Portrayed Karina in the comedy feature "Shallow Hal"

Possible career as a professional ballet dancer ended at age 14 after a ski accident

Cast on the short-lived WB series "Pepper Dennis" as Pepper's (Rebecca Romijn) sister

Co-hosted the FOX series "Hole in the Wall" with Los Angeles weatherman Mark Thompson

Received break-through role as Jessica Owens on "Baywatch"

Hosted the challenging reality gameshow "Dog Eat Dog"

Will join the cast of the CW's "Melrose Place" as the wife of Thomas Calabro's Dr. Michael Mancini

Summary

Former model Brooke Burns, perhaps best known for her stint on "Baywatch" (1998-2001), enjoyed an active performing career on television after leaving the campy series in 2000. Since that time, Burns made a name for herself as a sexy starlet, often appearing in tabloids for various personal dramas, including a well-profiled relationship with Bruce Willis and a near-death accident that almost left the gregarious actress paralyzed.

Began dating in August 2003; Rumored to be engaged as of April 2004; Reportedly split in June 2004

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In November 2005, Burns broke a bone in her neck after diving into a pool at her home. A friend, an ex-firefighter, found her, stabilized her neck, and called an ambulance. As a result of the injury, she has a titanium fusion in her neck comprising a plate, rod, and ten screws.